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DON'T PANIC
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.

Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.

In fact it was probably the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor — of which no Earthman had ever heard either.

Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one — more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid 's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.

First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

Articles

 * Alcohol
 * The Babel Fish


 * Earth


 * Froods


 * Hoopiness


 * Magrathea
 * Oolon Colluphid
 * Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
 * R
 * Sass
 * Strags
 * Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Marketing Division
 * Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal


 * Three Stages of Galactic Civilizations
 * Towels


 * Veet Voojagig


 * Vogons